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Friday, April 26, 2024

MCS Researchers Awarded Kaufman Foundation Grants

Learning how bacteria initiate or exit biofilm communities and how to develop a new class of atomically precise metal alloys are two projects from CMU researchers receiving a 2023 grant from The Charles E. Kaufman Foundation.
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Chemists Create Gold Quantum Rods with Unusual Optical Properties

A series of gold quantum rods synthesized by Carnegie Mellon chemists strongly absorb and emit in the near-infrared, making them 100 times stronger than commercially available organic dyes.
Thursday, March 07, 2024

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop New Machine Learning Method for Modeling of Chemical Reactions

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Los Alamos National Laboratory have used machine learning to create a model that simulates reactive processes in organic materials and conditions.
MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced
Friday, February 23, 2024

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

Six winners have received the Mellon College of Science Graduate Student Funding Award for fall conferences.
CMU-UBC Team Wins Challenge To Advance Parkinson's Disease Research
Monday, February 12, 2024

CMU-UBC Team Wins Challenge To Advance Parkinson's Disease Research

Carnegie Mellon University chemists and University of British Columbia researchers have found a potential target for Parkinson's disease treatment and won the CACHE Drug Discovery #1 Challenge.
Kriti Kapil Receives Kwolek Fellowship
Monday, January 22, 2024

Kriti Kapil Receives Kwolek Fellowship

Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. student Kriti Kapil received the Kwolek Fellowship for her research in polymer chemistry.
Causing Reactions
Friday, January 05, 2024

Causing Reactions

Chemistry Ph.D. Alumnus Sayam Sen Gupta received India's National Teachers Award for his work at IISER Kolkata.
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